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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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Success is a great healer.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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